TERRORISM
Jerusalem – The Straw that Breaks the Empire’s Back?
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When President Trump on 6 December 2017 declared unilaterally Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to where the US Embassy shall relocate, he violated UN Resolutions, international law, common sense and went against all diplomatic efforts to eventually bring peace to the region, not to speak about 130 countries that have already voiced opposition to such a decision. And this, before the Peace
Read Full ArticleRage over mythical beauty Padmavati shows ugly side to a new India
0 comments | by Vir Sanghvi
Several groups condemn the mythical tale as a distortion of history with some going so far as issuing death threats against the director – despite never having seen the movie Something strange and bewildering is happening in India and nobody is sure where it will lead. Over the past two weeks, the media landscape has been dominated by the campaign against Padmavati
Read Full ArticleBangladesh 2016/2017 - Amnesty International Report
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Amnesty International Report: Armed groups claiming to act in the name of Islam killed dozens of people in targeted attacks, including foreign nationals, secular activists and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. The government’s response was marked by human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, unlawful killi
Read Full ArticleAfghanistan: 16 years, thousands dead and no clear end in sight
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Afghanistan: 16 years, thousands dead and no clear end in sight By Ben Westcott, CNN
Read Full ArticleHere’s why the US spreads falsehoods about Iran
0 comments | by Eric Zuesse
Here’s why the US spreads falsehoods about Iran Iran is not sponsoring terrorism, but the US has vested interests in perpetuating lies on the matter. by Eric Zuesse November 27, 2017, 15:49 While I happened to be researching another subject, a central question in the investigation came to be how
Read Full ArticleHow the Rohingya Crisis Is Changing Bangladesh
0 comments | by B TOM FELIX JOEHNK
BANGKOK — Close to one million Rohingya from Myanmar are said to be living in Bangladesh at the moment, nearly half of them having fled since late August. The exodus is one of the world’s worst refugee crises in decades, and so far Bangladesh, already a very poor country, has borne much of the burden. The sudden influx of so many refugees has created a major humanitarian emergency a
Read Full ArticleRex Tillerson says US is ready to work with Taliban…while fighting them
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Rex Tillerson says US is ready to work with Taliban…while fighting them US policies on Afghanistan are either devious or based purely on ignorance. by Adam Garrie October 24, 2017
Read Full ArticleWhy has India given Rupees 7 billion to ‘Balochistan Liberation Army’?
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India has spent Rs 7 billion to run an anti-Pakistan campaign in Geneva, Switzerland and that the campaign has originated from Canada. Talking with reference to the anti-Pakistan posters in the Swiss city, Haroon said the Baluch Liberation Army (BLA) last year started getting anti-Pakistan articles published in Canadian newspapers. India got anti-Pakistan advertisements published in Gen
Read Full ArticleChina wears the mediator’s gown in the Af-Pak by Salman Rafi
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China wears the mediator’s gown in the Af-Pak Despite a high-level meeting between Pakistan’s General Bajwa, and Afghanistan’s president Ashraf Ghani, relations between the two countries remain largely troubled and uneasy. Nothing else can testify this tension better than the fact it is China once again that intervened to ease down tension and engage both coun
Read Full ArticleIndia and Israel Start to See Enemies Within Cultural Revolutions
0 comments | by Pankaj Mishra
Cultural revolutions are underway in two nation-states -- India and Israel -- founded by secular nationalists in the late 1940s. Right-wing demagogues, emerging in both countries from among previously unrepresented masses, seek to forge a new national identity by stigmatizing particular religious and secular groups. There are eerie similarities between the Hindu thugs who assault
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